Episodes 17

1 The LSD Story

January 12, 1967

30m

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

2 The Big Explosion

January 19, 1967

30m

A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.

3 The Kidnapping

January 26, 1967

30m

Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.

4 The Interrogation

February 9, 1967

30m

A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.

5 The Masked Bandits

February 16, 1967

30m

Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

6 The Bank Examiner Swindle

February 23, 1967

30m

Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.

7 The Hammer

March 2, 1967

30m

An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.

8 The Candy Store Robberies

March 9, 1967

30m

Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.

9 The Fur Job

March 16, 1967

30m

Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.

10 The Jade Story

March 23, 1967

30m

Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.

11 The Shooting

March 30, 1967

30m

A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.

12 The Hit and Run Driver

April 6, 1967

30m

Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.

13 The Bookie

April 13, 1967

30m

Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.

14 The Subscription Racket

April 20, 1967

30m

Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.

15 The Gun

April 27, 1967

30m

A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.

16 The Big Kids

May 4, 1967

30m

A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.

17 The Bullet

May 11, 1967

30m

A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.

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